As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

We can only know God well when we know our own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him but have glorified themselves.

Rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven.

I find distasteful the traditional idea of Christianity which preaches the resurrection of the body. Frankly, I see my body as more of a limitation than a virtue, and I will be glad to be free of it rather than having to continue to cart it around. I prefer to believe that souls can exist independently from bodies.

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself.

The greatest quality of a man is to treat his enemies in a better way, for Allah himself showed kindness to his unbelievers.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution.

Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.